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    Kemistry wins MTV

    2005-06-16T08:30:00Z

    Design and branding company Kemistry has won the contract to rebrand MTV3 in Finland. Kemistry will be responsible for producing the entire on-air package, covering idents, news programme graphics and website interfaces. The channel will relaunch in the autumn. Creative head Graham McCallum, who branded the original launch of MTV3 ...

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    Funds for films

    2005-06-16T08:30:00Z

    London's digital film festival, Pulse, has opened up£80,000 of funding to film-makers working in the digital medium. The funding will be spread among a maximum of 10 short films. Pulse was launched by Film London, in association with the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund in 2002, to help produce ...

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    Musgrove Quits M2

    2005-06-16T08:30:00Z

    Darren Musgrove has left Soho post-production company M2 to join broadcast facility Evolutions Television. Musgrove joins as a business development manager at the Berners Street post house. Musgrove previously worked for the BBC, Oasis and Broadcastmagazine. Post production producer Melanie Tomlin has also joined, leaving Nats ...

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    Growing pains in the world of DVD

    2005-06-16T08:00:00Z

    DVD is good business for facilities houses. But with increased competition and the introduction of new formats, it's a maturing market. By Kevin Hilton.

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    Toughest gig in town?

    2005-06-16T08:00:00Z

    Growing concern about the long hours culture in reality and factual TV has prompted Pact and Bectu to begin renegotiating terms for freelancers. But just what is the worst job in television?

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    Licence to skill

    2005-06-16T08:00:00Z

    From Tai Chi to camera operating and graffiti, National Skills Day offered a chance for broadcasting staff to try something new and better understand each other's jobs. But there was a serious message too.

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    Search is on for the new thing

    2005-06-16T08:00:00Z

    With Jess Search heading C4's new Documentary Film Foundation, you can bet the films it funds will be different. But she wouldn't have it any other way

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    Joining the club

    2005-06-16T08:00:00Z

    Former top TV executive Richard Eyre's first novel, The Club, may take a few liberties with the truth, but Roy Addison couldn't help recognising the politics at the heart of the story

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    Reality check for broadcasters

    2005-06-16T08:00:00Z

    With half a dozen ITV reality shows suffering an ignominious fate in the past year, the stakes are high as everyone searches for the elusive formula for success. Katy Elliott looks at the shows that flopped and what can be learnt from their failure

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    Virgin goes head to head with Planet Rock

    2005-06-16T08:00:00Z

    Virgin Radio is taking its digital rock station live in a bid to go head to head with GCap rival service Planet Rock.

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    Commission me, you git

    2005-06-16T08:00:00Z

    TV executives claim to be always on the lookout for exciting ideas, but never seem to grasp them when they come their way.

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    Untouchable? Absurd

    2005-06-16T08:00:00Z

    The idea that the future of the BBC is somehow safeguarded today is wide of the mark. Thompson's reforms are critical.

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    BBC and Pact say WOCC can roll

    2005-06-16T07:50:32Z

    The BBC's controversial Window of Creative Competition (WOCC), which opens up a further 25% of output to external suppliers, will be introduced before the end of the summer.

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    Five invests in US imports

    2005-06-16T07:50:30Z

    Five has splashed out on a host of shows from the LA Screenings, including a comedy inspired by the childhood experiences of comic Chris Rock and a Jennifer Lopez-produced drama.

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    Nickelodeon to promote healthy eating

    2005-06-16T07:50:14Z

    Nickelodeon is hoping to discourage the government from banning lucrative fast food ads by ploughing over£1m into a series of programmes championing healthy eating.

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    Sony takes a stake in Shine

    2005-06-16T07:50:12Z

    Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has bought a minority stake in Elisabeth Murdoch's indie, Shine.

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    VH1 hunts for an INXS rock idol

    2005-06-16T07:50:10Z

    VH1 has bagged exclusive UK rights for a high profile American reality show following rock band INXS's search for a new frontman.

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    Unions ready to talk on cuts

    2005-06-16T07:50:08Z

    Detailed talks on where exactly the first wave of job cuts at the BBC will fall could start within weeks following a meeting between BBC unions and director general Mark Thompson last week.

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    Diverse sets up shop in New York

    2005-06-16T07:50:06Z

    Diverse has won its first original commission in the US and opened a New York office to produce it.

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    Darlow signs up Sattin

    2005-06-16T07:50:04Z

    Factual indie Principal Television is being wound down after chief executive Richard Sattin accepted a new role at Darlow Smithson.